BBC News caught in new climate change scandal

Britain’s embattled BBC is embroiled in a major new scandal this morning, but this time it’s over potentially massive conflicts of interest in its climate change coverage.

Already licking its wounds from a pedophilia scandal, it has now been revealed the BBC decided to abandon its policy of objective reporting of the climate change issue back in 2006 on the basis of advice from an advisory panel – many of whose members had a financial interest in silencing debate.

On January 26, 2006, a twenty-eight strong advisory panel convinced BBC radio and TV news bosses to primarily push the “global warming is real” line, and not give airtime to people challenging that position.

For six years, lawyers for the BBC have been fighting to prevent the names of that advisory panel being revealed to the public.

Today, however, climate websites WattsUpWithThat and ClimateDepot have published the names of the people who convinced the BBC to publish climate propaganda, and that list reveals a number of attendees potentially stood to make money from the climate change scare through either business interests or public fundraising efforts built on climate scare news stories:

BBC Television Centre, London (cont)
Liz Molyneux, Editorial Executive, Factual Commissioning
Matt Morris, Head of News, Radio Five Live
Neil Nightingale, Head of Natural History Unit
Paul Brannan, Deputy Head of News Interactive
Peter Horrocks, Head of Television News
Peter Rippon, Duty Editor, World at One/PM/The World this Weekend
Phil Harding, Director, English Networks & Nations
Steve Mitchell, Head Of Radio News
Sue Inglish, Head Of Political Programmes
Frances Weil, Editor of News Special Events

There’s been no reaction yet from the BBC to the publication.

It has previously been reported that major environmental “charities” like Greenpeace made hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue after the BBC abandoned honest reporting on climate change in 2006 – a move that in turn encouraged other media to abandon objectivity as well.

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